Filmmaking goes behind prison bars

Held inside a notorious prison among some of California’s most dangerous felons, the San Quentin Film Festival is not your typical Hollywood affair.

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Red-carpet interviews take place just metres away from a now dormant execution chamber where hundreds of death row inmates met grisly ends.

Convicted murderers sit alongside famous actors and journalists, applauding films made by their fellow inmates.

Among them is Ryan Pagan, serving 77 years for first-degree murder.

"I always wanted to be an actor - but unfortunately that’s not the life I ended up living," explains Pagan, prison tattoos peeking out from the short sleeves of his jailhouse-issue blue shirt.